Papers relating to Stewart's book on Eduard Lindeman, educator and social philosopher.
Includes interviews, correspondence, notes, drafts, photocopies of many of Lindeman's
papers from Columbia University

David W. Stewart is a consultant, columnist and author, university instructor, policy
analyst, workshop leader, and public speaker in adult education. He was Director
of Program Development at the Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials
at the American Council on Education and President of the Coalition of Adult Education
Organizations (CAEO) in 1988-1989. He served as a member of the Planning Committee
for the First World Conference on Lifelong Learning held in Rome in 1994.

As President of CAEO, he helped organize the New Sweden '88 Adult Education Conference
in celebration of 350 years of Swedish settlement in America, and organized an exchange
visit of Soviet adult educators to the United States under an agreement concluded
with Znanie, the official Soviet adult education agency.

He is widely published and the recipient of the Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding
Research in Adult Education in 1987 and the Philip Frandson Award for Literature in
1988. He is the principal author of the "Bill of Rights for the Adult Learner" and
"Guidelines for Developing and Implementing a Code of Ethics for Adult Educators,"
and the author of Adult Learning in America: Eduard Lindeman and His Agenda for Lifelong Education.

Eduard Lindeman

Eduard Christian Lindemann (he later dropped the final "n") was born May 9th 1885,
in St Clair, Michigan, the tenth child of German-Danish immigrant parents Frederick
and Frederecka Johanna Von Piper Lindemann. He attended Michigan Agricultural College
(later Michigan State University) where he became involved in the YMCA, developed
a writing society and helped to found the Ethnic-Sociological Society. After graduation,
he worked with the Boys and Girls Clubs and 4-H as a youth worker and community organizer.
He taught at the YMCA College of Chicago for a year and briefly at the North Carolina
College for Women in Greensboro, then joined the New York School of Social Work (later
the Columbia University School of Social Work) in 1924, where he remained until his
retirement in 1950. He became closely associated with the leftist New Republic (whose writers included H. L. Mencken, John Dos Passos, Willa Cather and Michael
Gold), served on various commissions, was advisory editor to Mentor Books and was
Chair of the American Civil Liberties Union Commission on Academic Freedom (1949).

Over the course of his career, Lindeman published some 200 articles, 107 book reviews,
five books, 16 monographs, and 17 chapters in other works. He edited four books, shared
joint authorship of another, and gave at least 44 lectures of which some written record
remains.

Lindeman's life and work (for he did not separate the two) were not confined within
traditional borders; his writing displays a broad viewpoint that encompassed adult
education, community organization, politics, sociology and philosophy. Much of his
philosophical outlook was shaped by his friend and colleague John Dewey, by Danish
philosopher/educator/theologian Nikolai Grundtvig, and by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In
her book on him, his daughter Betty writes:

Not only could he relate education, social sciences and social problems to the problems
of the day; he could combine concepts from social sciences with both natural sciences
and philosophy. He was a pioneer on many interlocking fronts – a pioneer social scientist
with an allegiance to both science and to society and its processes, and also a pioneer
in adult education and social philosophy. (Leonard 1991: xxiii)

Lindeman was a Progressive; his theories and allegiances did not sit well with some
in 1940s America. When he was invited to speak before the Texas State Teachers' Association,
a faction attempted to have him removed from the program on the grounds that he was
a member of the ACLU and the Committee to Free Earl Browder, and therefore must be
a Communist.

Lindeman was not one to separate education from the rest of life. "Education is life,"
he wrote in The Meaning of Adult Education. He saw adult education not as an end in itself but as a continuous process, arising
not from formalized, structured classrooms but from every situation encountered, which
had as its purpose to relate the individual to his community and to put meaning into
the whole of life. Above all, adult education was a social effort, central to the
health and maintenance of democracy. His life and work demonstrate his abiding concern
for social justice, a belief in the possibilities of education and human action, and
a deep commitment to democracy.

Apart from a single folder of columns that Stewart wrote for Adult and Continuing Education Today, the David W. Stewart Papers consists of Stewart's voluminous notes and research materials for his book on Eduard
Lindeman. Much of it is photocopies (of Lindeman's correspondence, articles, book
excerpts, etc); the remainder is Stewart's own notes and drafts, some handwritten
and some typed.

Lindeman was close friends for many years with social activist and philanthropist
Dorothy Straight Elmhirst. Dorothy and her first husband, Willard Straight, founded
New Republic; with her second husband, Leonard, she founded Dartington Hall, an experiment in
progressive education and rural reconstruction in Totnes, Devon. Material on Dorothy
can be found in the Dorothy and Dartington Hall folders. Other individuals of interest in the collection include Mary Parker Follett
(social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and
management); Herbert Croly (journalist and another friend of Dorothy Straight); Betty
Leonard (daughter of Lindeman and author of a biography of him -- a manuscript of
her book is included); and Max Otto (atheist, pacifist and professor of philosophy
at the University of Wisconsin).

Photographs includes photographs of Lindeman, his family, and a few other individuals, including
several of Dorothy Straight Elmhirst.

Miscellaneous contains two doctoral dissertations, several audiocassettes of interviews, an audiocassette
of Hazel Taft Lindeman's memorial service, and approximately two thousand index cards
of Stewart's research notes, divided by subject.

Awards, critiques, prospectus sent to publishers, publisher correspondence, and reviews
are found in Reactions to the book.

Other writings consists of a single folder containing clippings of "Trendlines," a regular column
Stewart wrote for Adult and Continuing Education Today.

Subject file folders are arranged in alphabetical order, their titles and contents
exactly as supplied by Stewart. Folder titles for the most part are self-explanatory;
where necessary additional information is provided in brackets [ ]. "See also" references
have been added where appropriate. The contents of the folders are as Stewart had
them, apart from the few correspondence files whose contents have been arranged by
date.

Some of the subject files contain note cards. These have been left as Stewart had
them. In some cases the cards are clipped together into sections, in others they
are loose. Some were rubber-banded but the rubber bands had decayed or disintegrated
so have been removed.

The bulk of the note cards were in a single carton. These have been kept in the divisions
given them by Stewart as much as possible, though divisions may not always be accurate
as the cards shifted about during shipment.

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